“Wars do not make men great, but they do bring out the greatness in good men.” – Major Dick Winters
It was the beginning of the end for the Third Reich. On June 6, 1944, the Allies landed on the shores of Normandy to create a new front against the Nazi war machine. The 101st Airborne dropped into Normandy the night before.
Few people care about D-Day anymore. Google which changes the graphics on their web page to recognize special days always ignore D-Day. D-Day represents good over evil. It’s up to older Americans to share with younger Americans the history of the struggle for freedom from the beach at Omaha to Gettysburg to Yorktown.
Every summer we watch the Band of Brothers (HBO series) which follows E Company of the 101st Airborne.
Today a twelve foot statue is to be unveiled in Sainte-Marie-du-Mont in the likeness of Major Dick Winters who only agreed to be the model for the statue if it honored all junior U.S. military officers serving on June 6th, 1944. Major Dick Winters dies last year at the age of ninety-two.
It was no picnic on Omaha Beach where the Americans took heavy losses:
“D-Day Omaha Beach Battle Scene from the movie Saving Private Ryan” posted by TheTimesNOW:
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